Contributor Interview: E.C. Myers

This, as far as we know, is not E.C. Myers

   

    E.C. Myers struggles to stay awake in the city that never sleeps. The products of his self-imposed sleep deprivation have appeared in various places in print and online, including Son and Foe, flashquake, From the Asylum, and Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales. E.C. is a survivor of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and he continues to participate in several excellent writing groups, including Altered Fluid and Fangs of God.

SM: What made you decide to become a writer?
EM: The authors of all those great books I read when I was young made it look so easy.

SM:What/who is your biggest influence outside the literary world?
EM:Sallie Mae. I really need to pay off those student loans.

SM: If an illness or disorder were named after for you, what would it be called? What are its symptoms?
EM: Myers Sleep Abstainea: The inability to go to bed at a decent hour because you'd rather be up doing something else. Symptoms include refusing to get more than three or four hours of sleep a night (at most), consuming large quantities of caffeinated beverages, and complaining about how tired you are the next morning. The worst cases often involve sleepless nights in front of the television, but some sufferers are able to turn their disorder to more productive means, producing page after page of meaningless babble that eventually become award winning fiction short stories.

SM: What story or novel do you wish you'd written? Why?
EM: The Bible. You can't ask for a bigger readership.

SM: If you could say anything to the entire world, what would it be?
EM: Lighten up.